Brecht Evens
A brilliant illustrator and multi-award-winning graphic novel artist, Brecht Evens will create a fresco in real time. His subject? Refuge, the theme of this 9th edition of the Passa Porta Festival.
About the author
Brecht Evens was 22 when he graduated from the Sint-Lucas school of arts in Ghent (Belgium) with his graduation project, The Wrong Place. His inimitable style, characterized by a remarkable mastery of colour and transparency, the explosion of perspectives and a taste for detail, is immediately appealing. Published in 2010, The Wrong Place won the Daring Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. With the publication of The Making Of (2011) and Panther (2014), Brecht Evens’ reputation has continued to grow and now extends far beyond the world of comics.
In 2018 he published The City of Belgium, an impressive graphic novel of more than 300 pages, which tells the story of three night owls as they wander through a sublime chimerical city. This book earned Evens the Fauve Special Jury Prize at Angoulême in 2019.
In-between books, Brecht Evens works for the press and the fashion business. He is represented by Galerie Martel in Paris.
Org. Passa Porta
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Heks! Heks! Heks!
Nachtelijke orgiën met de duivel, zwarte katten waar je ook kijkt en ketels vol gif. In het personage van de heks wordt de vrouwelijke natuur weggezet als hysterisch, irrationeel en gevaarlijk. Schrijfster Jente Posthuma en dichteres Dominique De Groen gaan op zoek naar de échte verhalen achter het stereotype.
Ukraine writes back: Oksana Zabuzhko and Victoria Belim
On 24 February 2022, the world got a rude awakening: Russia had invaded neighbouring Ukraine. For the West, it was the start of a news cycle; for Ukrainians, yet another dark milestone in a long, bitter history. Writers Oksana Zabuzhko and Victoria Belim poignantly bear witness to a long-heralded tragedy.
Visite féministe du Béguinage
Nomade, le Passa Porta Festival prend cette année ses quartiers à l’église Saint Jean Baptiste. L’occasion de revisiter ce quartier où des béguines trouvèrent refuge.